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British Psychoanalytical Society

In research, British Psychoanalytical Society stands highest in Social Sciences (#6,932 of 9,585 worldwide), Psychology (#1,620 of 2,121 worldwide) and Clinical Psychology (#586 of 767 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Clinical Psychology and Psychology (Clinical Psychology is 37.5× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#17,194
of 22,385 · #20,553 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#602
of 862
Research works
768
▼ 9% vs 2018-21
Citations
3.8k
5.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.7%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.92×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
12%
world 40%
International
11%
world 18%
British Psychoanalytical Society

What is British Psychoanalytical Society known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Social SciencesDomain #6,932 of 9,585 9.4%138 #8839
PsychologyField #1,620 of 2,121 8.0%84 #2178
Clinical PsychologySubfield #586 of 767 6.2%62 #867

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where British Psychoanalytical Society sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022-now. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Social Sciences#8,839 #6,932
  2. Psychology#2,178 #1,620
  3. Clinical Psychology#867 #586
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

Which fields of science does British Psychoanalytical Society work in?

In 2022-now, 91% of research at British Psychoanalytical Society is in Social Sciences, 7% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Psychology (54%), Social Sciences (22%), Arts and Humanities (13%). It does 3.5× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 164 fractional works · 90.8% of its workPsychology: 97 fractional works · 53.7% of its workClinical Psychology: 71 fractional works · 39.2% of its workSocial Psychology: 10 fractional works · 5.7% of its workGeneral Psychology: 8 fractional works · 4.4% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workApplied Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 39 fractional works · 21.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 19 fractional works · 10.5% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 5 fractional works · 2.5% of its workEducation: 4 fractional works · 2.1% of its workCultural Studies: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGender Studies: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workDemography: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAnthropology: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 24 fractional works · 13.4% of its workPhilosophy: 8 fractional works · 4.3% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 7 fractional works · 3.6% of its workHistory: 4 fractional works · 2.3% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workReligious studies: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMusic: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workConservation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 12 fractional works · 6.6% of its workMedicine: 8 fractional works · 4.4% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workReproductive Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth Professions: 4 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKBritishPsychoanalytical…180fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences1%Health Sciences7%Social Sciences91%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 18 fields, with their numbers
    1. Psychology9753.7%
    2. Social Sciences3921.8%
    3. Arts and Humanities2413.4%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting20.9%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.8%
    6. Decision Sciences00.2%
    1. Medicine84.4%
    2. Health Professions42.2%
    1. Mathematics10.4%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.3%
    3. Chemistry00.2%
    4. Energy00.2%
    5. Physics and Astronomy00.2%
    6. Computer Science00.1%
    7. Environmental Science00.1%
    1. Neuroscience21.0%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.2%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does British Psychoanalytical Society specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Clinical Psychology takes 37.5× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Clinical PsychologySubfield · 70.7 works37×
  2. PsychologyField · 96.9 works18×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.61× its world share, 2 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEnvironmental Science: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.31× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.85× its world share, 4 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.23× its world share, 8 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 4.64× its world share, 24 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.27× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.25× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.37× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 17.62× its world share, 97 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.72× its world share, 39 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Psychology, 17.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 18 fields, with their numbers
  1. Psychology17.62×97 works
  2. Arts and Humanities4.64×24 works
  3. Social Sciences1.72×39 works
  4. Health Professions0.85×4 works
  5. Neuroscience0.61×2 works
  6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.37×1 works
  7. Mathematics0.31×1 works
  8. Business, Management and Accounting0.27×2 works
  9. Decision Sciences0.25×0 works
  10. Medicine0.23×8 works
  11. Energy0.20×0 works
  12. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.18×0 works
  13. Chemistry0.12×0 works
  14. Physics and Astronomy0.08×0 works
  15. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.04×0 works
  16. Computer Science0.02×0 works
  17. Environmental Science0.02×0 works
  18. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at British Psychoanalytical Society?

Ranked on the quality score, David Bell, M. Fakhry Davids and Hanna Segal lead among researchers whose main affiliation is British Psychoanalytical Society.

  1. 1 David Bell United Kingdom · #1,357,046 worldwide 353 citations · 72 works
  2. 2 M. Fakhry Davids United Kingdom · #1,733,485 worldwide 307 citations · 29 works
  3. 3 Hanna Segal United Kingdom · #1,872,868 worldwide 2.2k citations · 119 works
  4. 4 Ronald S. Britton United Kingdom · #1,915,232 worldwide 1.9k citations · 126 works
  5. 5 David Schwartz United Kingdom · #2,199,912 worldwide 778 citations · 45 works
  6. 6 Dinora Pines United Kingdom · #2,199,942 worldwide 534 citations · 16 works
  7. 7 Avner Bergstein United Kingdom · #2,222,711 worldwide 145 citations · 28 works
  8. 8 David M. Black United Kingdom · #2,371,406 worldwide 1.3k citations · 121 works
  9. 9 Haydée Faimberg United Kingdom · #2,448,642 worldwide 797 citations · 38 works
  10. 10 Jonathan Sklar United Kingdom · #2,568,301 worldwide 69 citations · 42 works
All ranked researchers at British Psychoanalytical Society

What are the most cited papers from British Psychoanalytical Society?

The most cited paper from British Psychoanalytical Society is "Severity Indices of Personality Problems (SIPP-118): Development, factor structure, reliability, and validity." (Roel Verheul, Helene Andrea, Caspar C. Berghout et al., 2008), with 311 citations. Next come "Playing with reality: II. The development of psychic reality from a theoretical perspective." (288) and "Mentalization and dissociation in the context of trauma: Implications for child psychopathology" (115).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Severity Indices of Personality Problems (SIPP-118): Development, factor structure, reliability, and validity. Roel Verheul, Helene Andrea, Caspar C. Berghout et al. · Psychological Assessment Mar 2008 311
2 Playing with reality: II. The development of psychic reality from a theoretical perspective. Mary Target, Peter Fonagy · PubMed Jun 1996 288
3 Mentalization and dissociation in the context of trauma: Implications for child psychopathology Karin Ensink, Michaël Bégin, Lina Normandin et al. · Journal of Trauma & Dissociation Open access 12 Apr 2016 115
4 The Violent True Believer as a “Lone Wolf” – Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Terrorism J. Reid Meloy, Jessica Yakeley · Behavioral Sciences & the Law 2 Apr 2014 104
5 The past unconscious, the present unconscious, and interpretation of the transference Joseph Sandler, Anne‐Marie Sandler · Psychoanalytic Inquiry 1984 93
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at British Psychoanalytical Society?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Meta-Analysis, Evidence-Based Practice, Psychological Interventions, Psychotherapy Outcome, Therapeutic Alliance, Mental Health, History and Ethics.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Meta-Analysis36▲ 34×2 topics
  2. Evidence-Based Practice34▲ 142×2 topics
  3. Psychological Interventions34▲ 139×2 topics
  4. Psychotherapy Outcome34▲ 883×1 topic
  5. Therapeutic Alliance34▲ 883×1 topic
  6. Mental Health27▲ 10×18 topics
  7. History18▲ 14×12 topics
  8. Ethics17▲ 19×15 topics
  9. Clinical Practice15▲ 56×3 topics
  10. Neoliberalism14▲ 21×6 topics
  11. Feminism13▲ 24×10 topics
  12. Group Therapy12▲ 192×2 topics
  13. Attachment12▲ 78×3 topics
  14. Resilience12▲ 14×5 topics
  15. Psychology11▲ 47×6 topics
  16. Childhood Trauma10▲ 93×2 topics
  17. Developmental Trauma10▲ 262×1 topic
  18. Psychodynamic Psychotherapy10▲ 262×1 topic
  19. Psychoanalysis10▲ 67×5 topics
  20. Science9▲ 21×3 topics
  21. Social Sciences9▲ 34×3 topics
  22. Neuroscience8▲ 15×6 topics
  23. Education8▲ 2.7×11 topics
  24. Cognitive Revolution8▲ 440×1 topic
  25. Epistemology8▲ 151×1 topic
  26. Philosophy7▲ 9.1×13 topics
  27. Gender7▲ 7.1×13 topics
  28. Literature7▲ 7.0×15 topics
  29. Narrative Analysis7▲ 72×3 topics
  30. Depression7▲ 4.2×10 topics
  31. Politics6▲ 14×5 topics
  32. Social Constructionism6▲ 94×2 topics
  33. Identity6▲ 4.5×15 topics
  34. Religion6▲ 6.5×10 topics
  35. Open Dialogue Approach5▲ 236×1 topic
  36. Solution-Focused Brief Therapy5▲ 236×1 topic
  37. Empathy5▲ 24×5 topics
  38. Agency5▲ 60×3 topics
  39. Trauma5▲ 13×4 topics
  40. Embodiment5▲ 14×3 topics

Which research topics does British Psychoanalytical Society publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications, Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research, Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology and Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics.

Psychotherapy Techniques…34Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications: 34 fractional worksPsychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research: 10 fractional worksAcademic and Historical …8Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology: 8 fractional worksCounseling, Therapy, and…5Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics: 5 fractional worksCritical Realism in Soci…4Critical Realism in Sociology: 4 fractional worksMental Health and Psychiatry: 3 fractional worksPsychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics: 3 fractional worksPsychology and Mental Health: 3 fractional worksHistorical Psychiatry and Medical Practices: 2 fractional worksTransactional Analysis in Psychotherapy: 2 fractional works
Clinical PsychologyGeneral PsychologySociology and Political SciencePhilosophy

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications Clinical Psychology 34 works
  2. 2 Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research Clinical Psychology 10 works
  3. 3 Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology General Psychology 8 works
  4. 4 Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics Clinical Psychology 5 works
  5. 5 Critical Realism in Sociology Sociology and Political Science 4 works
  6. 6 Mental Health and Psychiatry Philosophy 3 works
  7. 7 Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics Clinical Psychology 3 works
  8. 8 Psychology and Mental Health Clinical Psychology 3 works
  9. 9 Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices Clinical Psychology 2 works
  10. 10 Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy Clinical Psychology 2 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available11.9%not open88.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors11.0%domestic only89.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has British Psychoanalytical Society's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is British Psychoanalytical Society as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00076% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%British Psychoanalytical Society0.00079% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of British Psychoanalytical Society over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting5%10%15%all institutions10.0% in 2025British Psychoanalytical Society5.3% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 13.4% in 2020.

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